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Read about this year’s fire season, news from the National Interagency Fire Center, what’s a “megafire” and more at: www.nifc.gov/aboutNIFC/about_documents/newsletter/bi_Summer2011.pdf

USFS fuel treatment effectiveness assessment.

In This Issue Featured Article The Southwest's Top Research Needs Lessons Learned: La Niña Fires Recent Activities and News Upcoming Events Other Events in the Southwest Request for Proposals What's New

3/1/11 article from The New Mexican

Fire suppression in the last century has resulted in forests with excessive amounts of biomass, leading to more severe wildfires, covering greater areas, requiring more resources for suppression and mitigation, and causing increased onsite and offsite damage to forests and watersheds. Forest managers are now attempting to reduce this accumulated biomass by thinning, prescribed fire, and other management activities. These activities will impact watershed health, particularly as larger areas are treated and treatment activities become more widespread in space and in time. Management needs, laws, social pressures, and legal findings have underscored a need to synthesize what we know about the cumulative watershed effects of fuel management activities. In this 2010 synthesis by the Rocky Mountain Research Station, 14 chapters were defined covering fire and forests, machinery, erosion processes, water yield and quality, soil and riparian impacts, aquatic and landscape effects, and predictive tools and procedures. These chapters provide an overview of our current understanding of the cumulative watershed effects of fuel management in the western United States.

Webinar presentation by Laurie Huckaby, USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station. Hosted by the Southern Rocky Mountain Ecoregion (SRME) Consortium on 2/16/11.

The NM Fire Info website is an interagency effort by federal and state agencies in New Mexico to provide timely, accurate fire and restriction information for the entire state. The agencies that support this site are National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs, State of New Mexico, Forest Service, and Bureau of Land Management. It provides FAQs and resources for New Mexicans living near fire-prone environments, plus current information on wildland fires, prescribed burns, restrictions and closures in the state.

Newsletters and other resources created by the SW Fire Science Consortium. The consortium provides opportunities for managers, scientists, and policy makers to interact and share science in ways that can effectively move new information to management practices. We seek to link the academic community and the management community in educating future fire professionals with up-to-date science as well as practical experience. For more information, visit http://swfireconsortium.org

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